Thoughts About the GTX 960

What do you guys think about this card?
Worth it's money?
Rate it!

 

It's decent. Power consumption is reasonable, the price is OK but really, the 970 is better value for money by a long way.

7/10

 

The 900 series has a really hard time with DX9 games, which unfortunately was all I was able to experience with my limited time with my GTX 960. So from what I saw, it was essentially a GTX 750 Ti, Ti. This much is objective.

I also had crazy coil whine, fan buzzing, and audio issues, but my card was defective and I'm not a happy customer, so just bear in mind my bias,

 

I owned a GTX 960 Strix, it was a really nice card and very quiet, it ran BeamNG.drive just fine, and it'll run even better now that we have DX11.
I had it for about a month and then got a GTX 970 Strix because the company I bought it from allowed me to trade it in at full price and pay the difference for the 970, well worth it.

If you have the extra get a 970, but if you don't the 960 is still a great card.

 

i agree get the 970 its amazing and ive had no problems playing old games on it

ive played gta3 on it just fine

 

I purchased a GTX 960 half way through march, and I've loved every second of having one, It'll play just about any game at ultra or high settings @1080p and 60fps.

I was planning to get a GTX 970 and I had no intentions to get the 960, until I saw the price difference, in Australia, PC componets are not cheap, getting a 970 would of costed me around $650 (New PSU included in that price) and getting a 960 would of just been $330. I'm tight on cash, so I just got the 960 ever since and I've had no regret.

If you have cash to spend, 970. Want to save some money but still get some beefy power? 960, the 960 fast, just isn't as fast at the 970.

 

It's a great card, but go with the 4GB version at least.

Also, look at the 4GB R9 380 and compare prices and benchmarks.

 

I'd go with AMD if all you care about is just getting peformance and FPS in the game and nothing else. I would have AMD, but I can't live without Shadowplay, as a content producer, I need it, so think about what each card comes with before you purchase red or green, I personally think you get what you pay for with AMD and Nvidia, AMD runs hotter and their software isn't as great, but their cards output good peformance for a good price, while Nvidia has amazing software and runs quite cool (for a computer), but comes with the massive price tag.

 

AMD has their GVR recording thing which is basically the same as shadow play. The FPS drop is a little bit more but not a huge amount: http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1561-shadowplay-vs-fraps-vs-gvr-recording-benchmark

 

Saying AMD runs hotter is like saying that Nvidia runs hotter because the GTX 400 series was bad for that. It really depends on the card and the cooler but 99% of the time they are 1-2c above or bellow, the only real issue with this in the last few years was with the 290 reference coolers and even finding those is really somewhat difficult and easy to avoid.

This temporary, old, reference HD 5770 I'm using right now even under 100% load in a stress test cant even touch 70c.

 

the 900 series has significantly lower TDP than recent AMD offerings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power

@ op the 960 is not price efficient right now.

 

> mfw r9 390x STRIX (triple fan monster cooler) runs at 83C load
> amd doesnt run hot
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